Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] that a " in BNC.

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1 It requested him " to direct the Board of Education to set up an inquiry into the present state of the education of the deaf or to direct that a combined system of oral and manual instruction should be adopted in the schools for the deaf " .
2 Broomhead did not see fit to let Aggie know this and hoped that a change of abode might revitalise the tomcat 's flagging performance .
3 Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise .
4 After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders .
5 The use of a software package such as ‘ Office Power ’ with the ability to generate on-line a standard response to correspondence would dramatically improve the response time in dealing with most enquiries from individual and ensure that a response is made within a matter of days .
6 Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) .
7 Her garments were so large and flowing that a man could have pleasured her while she was waiting at a bus-stop and no one would have been any the wiser .
8 The bite marks are very deep and indicate that a large powqerful dog like a lurcher made them
9 Pressure for Cabinet changes had increased after faction leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) met on Dec. 11 and resolved that a reshuffle should take place before the end of the year .
10 The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August .
11 He pulled it farther open and saw that a bunch of quill pens in an elastic band had been moved .
12 Backbencher Mr Sijaona stated that the TBC was uneconomic and recommended that a committee of enquiry be set up to examine possible alternatives .
13 He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room .
14 A club spokesman said Gaydon , who joined the club from Winstonlead Kent League Cray Wanderers , was made aware when appointed that a low league position had to be avoided .
15 Arguments that there was no human author and , consequently , the lists of numbers drawn by the computer were not protected by copyright were rejected by Whitford J. who said that such a claim was as silly as saying that a pen could be the author of a literary work .
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